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Opportunity is a BITCH!

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When you see a good opportunity in life, drop everything and follow it.

Basically, the summer before I started college I worked this sick job making a semi-professional pay. It was a small company, and I shared an office with 2 other co-workers and our vice president, his dad was the founder, and we worked out of a 2nd story apartment in the ghetto, that was the whole operation.

After leaving for college I thought about working for him again but I got caught up in summer classes & other wasteful bullshit.

I called him back today 2 years later to work for him again, we ended up talking for a while and now he has 30 employees, a downtown office near the main university, and runs his entire field in the state. I fucked up big time, I could've been an office supervisor making $30/hour right now and exec in a few years when the company surpasses 100 employees, and within 8 years could've been pulling $200k looking over 500 employees.

At the time I had no idea we were a new company, I just thought my boss was a lazy salesman.

.. :cry:
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Re: Opportunity is a BITCH!

Post by sexy-kitten »

And when it's time to lay off people, you would've been the first on the list as you have no degree and little experience. Stay in school! :up:
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Re: Opportunity is a BITCH!

Post by AbdiWahab252 »

Paidmonk,

Tell me about it. I had a cousin who arrived from Mudug and was dirt poor. He stopped and begged me for $200 to get an IT degree at a technical school. I was very impressed by his tenacity and that he wasn't obsessed about fleeing to the West. I paid for his entire tuition and just recently saw him. He now owns a booming phone company and is grossing several million. Yet he never forgot how I helped him out and gave me a nice amount of money but still saying that he could never truly repay me.

So bro, if you see a good thing do it :up: Education is a tool to get ahead but its just that a tool. You gots to use all the tools in your arsenal.
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